Afghanistan is the world’s biggest exporter of black-market opium from which heroin is made. It’s a multi-billion dollar business, responsible for around a hundred thousand deaths every year and it’s a major source of income for terrorists. RT Doc travelled to the poppy fields where death is harvested to find out why no one can put a stop to this deadly trade.
When it comes to heroin, a non-intervention policy is still going strong in Afghanistan where over 90% of the world’s black market opium is produced. Most finds its way onto the international drug market and the profits fund organized crime and terrorist groups like ISIS, which is growing in strength here.
The dealers and manufacturers aren’t hard to find: they live in luxurious houses, have fields blooming with poppies and sell their narcotic wares in broad daylight. Even so, they still manage to evade arrest. Poppy fields are destroyed and drugs seized but it’s only ever the middle men who are punished, not the drug lords. There’s been a NATO military presence in the country for 14 years now but still, drugs production continues to grow.
Local people suffer from the drug business too, around 18% of the capital’s population are drug addicts. The places where drugs are sold and used are well known but the police are powerless to act. Mafia wars drive civilians from their land in the southern regions, forcing them into refugee camps in their own country. Opium growers get rich by plunging fellow citizens into the depths of misery.
RT Doc’s investigative team visited Afghanistan to document the Police’s losing battle against opium producers and its effect on the rest of the country. They talk to police officers, drug users and opium growers in search of a fuller picture and to ask why this massive and life-destroying industry continues to flourish.
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Afghanistan is the world’s biggest exporter of black-market opium from which heroin is made. It’s a multi-billion dollar business, responsible for more than a hundred thousand deaths every year and it’s a major source of income for terrorists. RT Doc travelled to the poppy fields where death is harvested to find out why no one can put a stop to this deadly trade.
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published:16 Oct 2015

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Destitute drug addicts live beneath a bridge in western Kabul. Social stigma against drug use is great. Disowned or otherwise disconnected from their families, they lose access to the primary network of help available to the poor in this developing country. They are, definitively, unredeemable, and yet one woman, Laila Haidari, seeks to redeem them.

published:19 Nov 2014

views:21136

August 10, 2009
In a small village in northeastern Afghanistan,
it's estimated more than half the residents are addicted to opium, Even the youngest of children are given the drug
In a village in northeastern Afghanistan, it's just past eight in the morning at Islam Begs house, and the family is already curled up around a burning opium pipe
They include his one-year-old grandson
No one looks twice as his aunt blows the opium at him
It's a common practice here, resulting in rampant child addiction. Residents argue there is no alternative because there is no medicine: there is one drug and that's opium´
Islam Beg at age 65 admits he's ashamed of what he's become.
Islam Beg, drug addict "I started taking a smoke until I got addicted to this (opium). I lost my property, I lost my strength, my bravery and now I am laying here with an empty stomach."
Beg's forefathers used to own much of the land in the village and he once had 1,200 sheep. But they were sold, and then the land sold, to pay for opium.
The pipe is passed around and they all take turns to fill their lungs with this deadly substance.
This family of five is typical of the growing number of narcotics addicts in Afghanistan. There are an estimated 150,000 opium addicts and a further 50,000 heroin addicts here
Decades of war and poverty have instilled a sense of hopelessness in many people here, making narcotics an easydestructive way to deal with an often grim reality
This village Sarab has a population of fewer than 2,000, and half are already addicts
Afghanistan has few drug treatment services availablecountry-wide, there are fewer than 200 beds total for drug rehabilitation
In small villages like this everyone is linked and every family sinks further and further into debt
Jan Begum, drug addict "All I had I lost buying this (opium) you can see nothing has been left for me. I have been sick for the last six months and I don't have money to go to the doctor, all I had I spent on this (opium)."
This woman blows smoke into the face of a little girl
Khanim Gul, drug addict "I blow opium smoke to her face because I want her to sleep well at night. Opium works for us as an alternative for any kind of medicine."
Beg is hopeful that his grandchildren will escape his fate, he believes they're not yet addicted
But opium addiction in these remote mountain hamlets is so entrenched that whole families, from the smallest toddlers to old men, are held in its vice

published:04 Sep 2009

views:347839

Afghanistan's opium production has only increased since NATO left the country, harvest is at a record high. The country is the world's largest producer of opium and heroin - around 85 percent of global supplies.
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What Makes Heroin So Deadly? http://testu.be/1P3p7ZB
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Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan produce more than 90% of the world's opium. As a result, drug addiction has soared in Pakistan. So, how bad is Pakistan's heroin problem?
Learn More:
Drug Use in Pakistan 2013
http://www.unodc.org/documents/pakistan/Survey_Report_Final_2013.pdf
"In 2012, a comprehensive national study of drug use was conducted in Pakistan, providing reliable baseline information on the prevalence and patterns of drug use among the population aged 15 to 64."
How Pakistan succumbed to a hard-drug epidemic
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/10705585/How-Pakistan-succumbed-to-a-hard-drug-epidemic.html
"Almost30 years after first reporting on Pakistan's then nascent North West Frontier heroin trade, David Browne returns to find a city - and a country - in the grip of mass drug addiction."
Drug AbuseControlMaster Plan
http://www.aidsdatahub.org/sites/default/files/documents/Drug_Abuse_Control_Master_Plan_2010_14.pdf
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published:28 Apr 2015

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America's Blind Eye (2002): This archive report exposes Afghan drug lord Haji Bashir Noorzai, head honcho of Afghanistan's heroin trade.
For similar stories see our Drug Wars playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlGSlkijht5gE0xdjKlubaVbDDmPVCgJL
BehindThe TalibanMask: The Other Side Of Afghanistan's Front-line
https://youtu.be/5OI8Y0jjM0k
InsideMyanmar's SoaringHeroinTrade
https://youtu.be/_5zC1WitvLw
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Following the arrest of Afghan heroin baron, Haji Bashir Noorzai, we bring back the award-winning report which first exposed him. It contains excellent undercover footage of the Kandahar opium markets.
On the streets of Sangin, it is business as usual for the opium wholesalers and brokers. "We buy it from the farmers here and then we take it to the Iranian border," comments one local dealer. At $800 a kilo, opium is too lucrative to ignore and the traders are relieved the Americans show no intention of closing down their operations. "You take away opium and you suck the oxygen out of this economy," says Michael Ware of Time magazine.
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published:10 Aug 2007

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EXPRESS | PUNJAB
￼￼￼￼ExpressPunjab is a documentary, which looks at the region of Punjab, firmly in a grip of a drug epidemic with a staggering 70% of its youth, estimated to be on drugs. India and Pakistan maybe at war but there is a commercial relationship that binds them with a drug route starting from Afghanistan to Pakistan and then Punjab ending up in the big cities of India. And with every 3rd family in Punjab having relatives in the UK/Europe or USA sending money home to their families they are unwittingly sending money for drugs and not food.
￼The truth is that Punjab is in a grip of a drug epidemic – and a main university in route on the borders discovering where the region has claimed that a staggering 70% are estimated to be on drugs such as
they come from, who are the suppliers heroin, smack and pharmaceutical medical drugs. It is a problem that is and who are the addicts. The threatening the future of the next generation
From the ages of 17 – 87 the Punjabi men are destroying their lives and their families as this problem continues to be brushed under the carpet by a state that is in total denial.
Express | Punjab takes a hard-hitting look at this phenomenon asking difficult questions such as why is this happening? How is it happening? What are the legal authorities doing to stem the tide of this ever-increasing crime? And to what extent is the police turning a blind eye and in some cases even colluding with the drug dealers?
￼
￼A Man who lost his Son - The documentary looks at the real human suffering that drug users cause and how their actions destroyed their families and relationships. Take for instance 87-year- old Paramjeet Singh (left) whose 25-year- old son Bala took an overdose and left his family in financial dire straits, as he was the only real breadwinner. His father reveals that he never got his son married because of his drug habits and he did not wish to see his daughter-in law become a widow at such an early age.
Amarjeet Kaur (A Widow) - 45-year-old Amarjeet Kaur tells us how her husband a farmer a habitual smack user died after an overdose leaving her and the two young children penniless. They are now left to fend for themselves.
￼Former drug addict and now editor-at-large of Tehelka (Sting) magazine VijaySimha puts into historical context the origin of the problem explaining how Punjab became a haven for drug peddlers from Afghanistan in the late 80’s catering for the
￼Vijay Simha (Editor-at-large, Tehelka Magazine)
“
‘Brown sugar addict’. He blames the then Indian government who were totally unable to get to grips with the problem and let it spiral madly out of control. He further added ‘It’s like a locust attacking a field there’ nothing left. It’s totally hollow and that is totally what is happening in Punjab and it’s not something that anyone will accept”
￼Iqbal Singh, a respected current SeniorSuperintendent of police makes the startling revelation that “10% of the Police force is drug addicts themselves... They are mixed up with the drug peddlers” he says and the rest are corrupt taking money from the traffickers”. With that kind of corruption and collusion the police do not have a chance to even skim the surface of the problem.
But the most startling piece of footage is of two 17 and 18 year old (names unknown) ‘shooting up’ with pharmaceutical drugs purchased from the local chemist for a Rs. 100/- ( £1.20) . With alarming honesty and no less bravado these two young users show us
￼￼Left: AftershockRight: 17 and 18 year old shooting up how they ‘shoot up’ drugs to get high up to 4 times a day and that it is the local pharmacist who has supplied them with the package which include anaesthetics and painkillers and a new needle. This cheap fix combination satisfies their habits and we see first hand how they do it and we witnessed first hand their feeling of getting high.
They pour scorn on the ‘respectable pharmacist’ who without batting an eyelid sells them drugs and how the local police not only turn a blind eye but actively cut themselves a piece of the action from the sale of these drugs. Almost all their schoolmates are also addicts they tell us and the reality is that unless they stop this horrendous drug abuse they will die.
But the problem of drug addiction is not confined to the young. Take for instance Grandfather and a agricultural worker 70 year old Singh who spends up to a 3rd of his daily wage in buying bukhi (A poppy husk) which he claims, it give him energy and puts him on a perpetual high. He simply cannot work without taking his daily intake of four doses a day.
“In 10 years time the butter chicken will still be there so will the bhangra but the young people of Punjab wont be” Vijay Simha
Produced by: Ranbir Kaloya
Directed by: Gaurav Bavdankar
￼￼

published:20 Jun 2016

views:70593

Drug overdose

The term drug overdose (or simply overdose or OD) describes the ingestion or application of a drug or other substance in quantities greater than are recommended or generally practiced. An overdose may result in a toxic state or death.

Classification

The word "overdose" implies that there is a common safe dosage and usage for the drug; therefore, the term is commonly only applied to drugs, not poisons, though even poisons are harmless at a low enough dosage.

Drug overdoses are sometimes caused intentionally to commit suicide or as self-harm, but many drug overdoses are accidental, the result of intentional or unintentional misuse of medication. Intentional misuse leading to overdose can include using prescribed or unprescribed drugs in excessive quantities in an attempt to produce euphoria.

Usage of illicit drugs of unexpected purity, in large quantities, or after a period of drug abstinence can also induce overdose. Cocaine users who inject intravenously can easily overdose accidentally, as the margin between a pleasurable drug sensation and an overdose is small.

Afghan Overdose. Inside opium trade

Afghanistan is the world’s biggest exporter of black-market opium from which heroin is made. It’s a multi-billion dollar business, responsible for around a hundred thousand deaths every year and it’s a major source of income for terrorists. RT Doc travelled to the poppy fields where death is harvested to find out why no one can put a stop to this deadly trade.
When it comes to heroin, a non-intervention policy is still going strong in Afghanistan where over 90% of the world’s black market opium is produced. Most finds its way onto the international drug market and the profits fund organized crime and terrorist groups like ISIS, which is growing in strength here.
The dealers and manufacturers aren’t hard to find: they live in luxurious houses, have fields blooming with poppies and sell their narcotic wares in broad daylight. Even so, they still manage to evade arrest. Poppy fields are destroyed and drugs seized but it’s only ever the middle men who are punished, not the drug lords. There’s been a NATO military presence in the country for 14 years now but still, drugs production continues to grow.
Local people suffer from the drug business too, around 18% of the capital’s population are drug addicts. The places where drugs are sold and used are well known but the police are powerless to act. Mafia wars drive civilians from their land in the southern regions, forcing them into refugee camps in their own country. Opium growers get rich by plunging fellow citizens into the depths of misery.
RT Doc’s investigative team visited Afghanistan to document the Police’s losing battle against opium producers and its effect on the rest of the country. They talk to police officers, drug users and opium growers in search of a fuller picture and to ask why this massive and life-destroying industry continues to flourish.
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Afghan Overdose. Inside Afghanistan's Opium Trade (Trailer)

Afghanistan is the world’s biggest exporter of black-market opium from which heroin is made. It’s a multi-billion dollar business, responsible for more than a hundred thousand deaths every year and it’s a major source of income for terrorists. RT Doc travelled to the poppy fields where death is harvested to find out why no one can put a stop to this deadly trade.
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4:47

Redeeming Afghan addicts

Redeeming Afghan addicts

Redeeming Afghan addicts

Destitute drug addicts live beneath a bridge in western Kabul. Social stigma against drug use is great. Disowned or otherwise disconnected from their families, they lose access to the primary network of help available to the poor in this developing country. They are, definitively, unredeemable, and yet one woman, Laila Haidari, seeks to redeem them.

August 10, 2009
In a small village in northeastern Afghanistan,
it's estimated more than half the residents are addicted to opium, Even the youngest of children are given the drug
In a village in northeastern Afghanistan, it's just past eight in the morning at Islam Begs house, and the family is already curled up around a burning opium pipe
They include his one-year-old grandson
No one looks twice as his aunt blows the opium at him
It's a common practice here, resulting in rampant child addiction. Residents argue there is no alternative because there is no medicine: there is one drug and that's opium´
Islam Beg at age 65 admits he's ashamed of what he's become.
Islam Beg, drug addict "I started taking a smoke until I got addicted to this (opium). I lost my property, I lost my strength, my bravery and now I am laying here with an empty stomach."
Beg's forefathers used to own much of the land in the village and he once had 1,200 sheep. But they were sold, and then the land sold, to pay for opium.
The pipe is passed around and they all take turns to fill their lungs with this deadly substance.
This family of five is typical of the growing number of narcotics addicts in Afghanistan. There are an estimated 150,000 opium addicts and a further 50,000 heroin addicts here
Decades of war and poverty have instilled a sense of hopelessness in many people here, making narcotics an easydestructive way to deal with an often grim reality
This village Sarab has a population of fewer than 2,000, and half are already addicts
Afghanistan has few drug treatment services availablecountry-wide, there are fewer than 200 beds total for drug rehabilitation
In small villages like this everyone is linked and every family sinks further and further into debt
Jan Begum, drug addict "All I had I lost buying this (opium) you can see nothing has been left for me. I have been sick for the last six months and I don't have money to go to the doctor, all I had I spent on this (opium)."
This woman blows smoke into the face of a little girl
Khanim Gul, drug addict "I blow opium smoke to her face because I want her to sleep well at night. Opium works for us as an alternative for any kind of medicine."
Beg is hopeful that his grandchildren will escape his fate, he believes they're not yet addicted
But opium addiction in these remote mountain hamlets is so entrenched that whole families, from the smallest toddlers to old men, are held in its vice

2:06

Afghanistan is the world’s largest producer of opium – and the government is unable to change that

Afghanistan is the world’s largest producer of opium – and the government is unable to change that

Afghanistan is the world’s largest producer of opium – and the government is unable to change that

Afghanistan's opium production has only increased since NATO left the country, harvest is at a record high. The country is the world's largest producer of opium and heroin - around 85 percent of global supplies.
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2:52

Why Pakistan Is The Most Heroin Addicted Country

Why Pakistan Is The Most Heroin Addicted Country

Why Pakistan Is The Most Heroin Addicted Country

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Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan produce more than 90% of the world's opium. As a result, drug addiction has soared in Pakistan. So, how bad is Pakistan's heroin problem?
Learn More:
Drug Use in Pakistan 2013
http://www.unodc.org/documents/pakistan/Survey_Report_Final_2013.pdf
"In 2012, a comprehensive national study of drug use was conducted in Pakistan, providing reliable baseline information on the prevalence and patterns of drug use among the population aged 15 to 64."
How Pakistan succumbed to a hard-drug epidemic
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/10705585/How-Pakistan-succumbed-to-a-hard-drug-epidemic.html
"Almost30 years after first reporting on Pakistan's then nascent North West Frontier heroin trade, David Browne returns to find a city - and a country - in the grip of mass drug addiction."
Drug AbuseControlMaster Plan
http://www.aidsdatahub.org/sites/default/files/documents/Drug_Abuse_Control_Master_Plan_2010_14.pdf
"Pakistan is one of the transit countries for opiates produced in Afghanistan."
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28:06

Afghanistan's Deposed Heroin Kingpin

Afghanistan's Deposed Heroin Kingpin

Afghanistan's Deposed Heroin Kingpin

America's Blind Eye (2002): This archive report exposes Afghan drug lord Haji Bashir Noorzai, head honcho of Afghanistan's heroin trade.
For similar stories see our Drug Wars playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlGSlkijht5gE0xdjKlubaVbDDmPVCgJL
BehindThe TalibanMask: The Other Side Of Afghanistan's Front-line
https://youtu.be/5OI8Y0jjM0k
InsideMyanmar's SoaringHeroinTrade
https://youtu.be/_5zC1WitvLw
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Following the arrest of Afghan heroin baron, Haji Bashir Noorzai, we bring back the award-winning report which first exposed him. It contains excellent undercover footage of the Kandahar opium markets.
On the streets of Sangin, it is business as usual for the opium wholesalers and brokers. "We buy it from the farmers here and then we take it to the Iranian border," comments one local dealer. At $800 a kilo, opium is too lucrative to ignore and the traders are relieved the Americans show no intention of closing down their operations. "You take away opium and you suck the oxygen out of this economy," says Michael Ware of Time magazine.
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31:05

Express Punjab - version English

Express Punjab - version English

Express Punjab - version English

EXPRESS | PUNJAB
￼￼￼￼ExpressPunjab is a documentary, which looks at the region of Punjab, firmly in a grip of a drug epidemic with a staggering 70% of its youth, estimated to be on drugs. India and Pakistan maybe at war but there is a commercial relationship that binds them with a drug route starting from Afghanistan to Pakistan and then Punjab ending up in the big cities of India. And with every 3rd family in Punjab having relatives in the UK/Europe or USA sending money home to their families they are unwittingly sending money for drugs and not food.
￼The truth is that Punjab is in a grip of a drug epidemic – and a main university in route on the borders discovering where the region has claimed that a staggering 70% are estimated to be on drugs such as
they come from, who are the suppliers heroin, smack and pharmaceutical medical drugs. It is a problem that is and who are the addicts. The threatening the future of the next generation
From the ages of 17 – 87 the Punjabi men are destroying their lives and their families as this problem continues to be brushed under the carpet by a state that is in total denial.
Express | Punjab takes a hard-hitting look at this phenomenon asking difficult questions such as why is this happening? How is it happening? What are the legal authorities doing to stem the tide of this ever-increasing crime? And to what extent is the police turning a blind eye and in some cases even colluding with the drug dealers?
￼
￼A Man who lost his Son - The documentary looks at the real human suffering that drug users cause and how their actions destroyed their families and relationships. Take for instance 87-year- old Paramjeet Singh (left) whose 25-year- old son Bala took an overdose and left his family in financial dire straits, as he was the only real breadwinner. His father reveals that he never got his son married because of his drug habits and he did not wish to see his daughter-in law become a widow at such an early age.
Amarjeet Kaur (A Widow) - 45-year-old Amarjeet Kaur tells us how her husband a farmer a habitual smack user died after an overdose leaving her and the two young children penniless. They are now left to fend for themselves.
￼Former drug addict and now editor-at-large of Tehelka (Sting) magazine VijaySimha puts into historical context the origin of the problem explaining how Punjab became a haven for drug peddlers from Afghanistan in the late 80’s catering for the
￼Vijay Simha (Editor-at-large, Tehelka Magazine)
“
‘Brown sugar addict’. He blames the then Indian government who were totally unable to get to grips with the problem and let it spiral madly out of control. He further added ‘It’s like a locust attacking a field there’ nothing left. It’s totally hollow and that is totally what is happening in Punjab and it’s not something that anyone will accept”
￼Iqbal Singh, a respected current SeniorSuperintendent of police makes the startling revelation that “10% of the Police force is drug addicts themselves... They are mixed up with the drug peddlers” he says and the rest are corrupt taking money from the traffickers”. With that kind of corruption and collusion the police do not have a chance to even skim the surface of the problem.
But the most startling piece of footage is of two 17 and 18 year old (names unknown) ‘shooting up’ with pharmaceutical drugs purchased from the local chemist for a Rs. 100/- ( £1.20) . With alarming honesty and no less bravado these two young users show us
￼￼Left: AftershockRight: 17 and 18 year old shooting up how they ‘shoot up’ drugs to get high up to 4 times a day and that it is the local pharmacist who has supplied them with the package which include anaesthetics and painkillers and a new needle. This cheap fix combination satisfies their habits and we see first hand how they do it and we witnessed first hand their feeling of getting high.
They pour scorn on the ‘respectable pharmacist’ who without batting an eyelid sells them drugs and how the local police not only turn a blind eye but actively cut themselves a piece of the action from the sale of these drugs. Almost all their schoolmates are also addicts they tell us and the reality is that unless they stop this horrendous drug abuse they will die.
But the problem of drug addiction is not confined to the young. Take for instance Grandfather and a agricultural worker 70 year old Singh who spends up to a 3rd of his daily wage in buying bukhi (A poppy husk) which he claims, it give him energy and puts him on a perpetual high. He simply cannot work without taking his daily intake of four doses a day.
“In 10 years time the butter chicken will still be there so will the bhangra but the young people of Punjab wont be” Vijay Simha
Produced by: Ranbir Kaloya
Directed by: Gaurav Bavdankar
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Afghan Overdose. Inside opium trade

Afghanistan is the world’s biggest exporter of black-market opium from which heroin is made. It’s a multi-billion dollar business, responsible for around a hundred thousand deaths every year and it’s a major source of income for terrorists. RT Doc travelled to the poppy fields where death is harvested to find out why no one can put a stop to this deadly trade.
When it comes to heroin, a non-intervention policy is still going strong in Afghanistan where over 90% of the world’s black market opium is produced. Most finds its way onto the international drug market and the profits fund organized crime and terrorist groups like ISIS, which is growing in strength here.
The dealers and manufacturers aren’t hard to find: they live in luxurious houses, have fields blooming with poppies and sell th...

Afghan Overdose. Inside Afghanistan's Opium Trade (Trailer)

Afghanistan is the world’s biggest exporter of black-market opium from which heroin is made. It’s a multi-billion dollar business, responsible for more than a hundred thousand deaths every year and it’s a major source of income for terrorists. RT Doc travelled to the poppy fields where death is harvested to find out why no one can put a stop to this deadly trade.
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published: 16 Oct 2015

Redeeming Afghan addicts

Destitute drug addicts live beneath a bridge in western Kabul. Social stigma against drug use is great. Disowned or otherwise disconnected from their families, they lose access to the primary network of help available to the poor in this developing country. They are, definitively, unredeemable, and yet one woman, Laila Haidari, seeks to redeem them.

August 10, 2009
In a small village in northeastern Afghanistan,
it's estimated more than half the residents are addicted to opium, Even the youngest of children are given the drug
In a village in northeastern Afghanistan, it's just past eight in the morning at Islam Begs house, and the family is already curled up around a burning opium pipe
They include his one-year-old grandson
No one looks twice as his aunt blows the opium at him
It's a common practice here, resulting in rampant child addiction. Residents argue there is no alternative because there is no medicine: there is one drug and that's opium´
Islam Beg at age 65 admits he's ashamed of what he's become.
Islam Beg, drug addict "I started taking a smoke until I got addicted to this (opium). I lost ...

published: 04 Sep 2009

Afghanistan is the world’s largest producer of opium – and the government is unable to change that

Afghanistan's opium production has only increased since NATO left the country, harvest is at a record high. The country is the world's largest producer of opium and heroin - around 85 percent of global supplies.
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published: 27 Apr 2016

Why Pakistan Is The Most Heroin Addicted Country

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Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan produce more than 90% of the world's opium. As a result, drug addiction has soared in Pakistan. So, how bad is Pakistan's heroin problem?
Learn More:
Drug Use in Pakistan 2013
http://www.unodc.org/documents/pakistan/Survey_Report_Final_2013.pdf
"In 2012, a comprehensive national study of drug use was conducted in Pakistan, providing reliable baseline information on the prevalence and patterns of drug use among the population aged 15 to 64."
How Pakistan succumbed to a hard-drug epidemic
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/10705585/How-Pakistan-succumbed-to-a-hard-drug-epidemic.html
"Almost30 years after first reporting on Pakistan's then nascent...

published: 28 Apr 2015

Afghanistan's Deposed Heroin Kingpin

America's Blind Eye (2002): This archive report exposes Afghan drug lord Haji Bashir Noorzai, head honcho of Afghanistan's heroin trade.
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BehindThe TalibanMask: The Other Side Of Afghanistan's Front-line
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Following the arrest of Afghan heroin baron, Haji Bashir Noorzai, we bring back the award-winning report which first exposed him. It contains excellent undercove...

published: 10 Aug 2007

Express Punjab - version English

EXPRESS | PUNJAB
￼￼￼￼ExpressPunjab is a documentary, which looks at the region of Punjab, firmly in a grip of a drug epidemic with a staggering 70% of its youth, estimated to be on drugs. India and Pakistan maybe at war but there is a commercial relationship that binds them with a drug route starting from Afghanistan to Pakistan and then Punjab ending up in the big cities of India. And with every 3rd family in Punjab having relatives in the UK/Europe or USA sending money home to their families they are unwittingly sending money for drugs and not food.
￼The truth is that Punjab is in a grip of a drug epidemic – and a main university in route on the borders discovering where the region has claimed that a staggering 70% are estimated to be on drugs such as
they come from, who are the suppl...

Afghan Overdose. Inside opium trade

Afghanistan is the world’s biggest exporter of black-market opium from which heroin is made. It’s a multi-billion dollar business, responsible for around a hund...

Afghanistan is the world’s biggest exporter of black-market opium from which heroin is made. It’s a multi-billion dollar business, responsible for around a hundred thousand deaths every year and it’s a major source of income for terrorists. RT Doc travelled to the poppy fields where death is harvested to find out why no one can put a stop to this deadly trade.
When it comes to heroin, a non-intervention policy is still going strong in Afghanistan where over 90% of the world’s black market opium is produced. Most finds its way onto the international drug market and the profits fund organized crime and terrorist groups like ISIS, which is growing in strength here.
The dealers and manufacturers aren’t hard to find: they live in luxurious houses, have fields blooming with poppies and sell their narcotic wares in broad daylight. Even so, they still manage to evade arrest. Poppy fields are destroyed and drugs seized but it’s only ever the middle men who are punished, not the drug lords. There’s been a NATO military presence in the country for 14 years now but still, drugs production continues to grow.
Local people suffer from the drug business too, around 18% of the capital’s population are drug addicts. The places where drugs are sold and used are well known but the police are powerless to act. Mafia wars drive civilians from their land in the southern regions, forcing them into refugee camps in their own country. Opium growers get rich by plunging fellow citizens into the depths of misery.
RT Doc’s investigative team visited Afghanistan to document the Police’s losing battle against opium producers and its effect on the rest of the country. They talk to police officers, drug users and opium growers in search of a fuller picture and to ask why this massive and life-destroying industry continues to flourish.
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Afghanistan is the world’s biggest exporter of black-market opium from which heroin is made. It’s a multi-billion dollar business, responsible for around a hundred thousand deaths every year and it’s a major source of income for terrorists. RT Doc travelled to the poppy fields where death is harvested to find out why no one can put a stop to this deadly trade.
When it comes to heroin, a non-intervention policy is still going strong in Afghanistan where over 90% of the world’s black market opium is produced. Most finds its way onto the international drug market and the profits fund organized crime and terrorist groups like ISIS, which is growing in strength here.
The dealers and manufacturers aren’t hard to find: they live in luxurious houses, have fields blooming with poppies and sell their narcotic wares in broad daylight. Even so, they still manage to evade arrest. Poppy fields are destroyed and drugs seized but it’s only ever the middle men who are punished, not the drug lords. There’s been a NATO military presence in the country for 14 years now but still, drugs production continues to grow.
Local people suffer from the drug business too, around 18% of the capital’s population are drug addicts. The places where drugs are sold and used are well known but the police are powerless to act. Mafia wars drive civilians from their land in the southern regions, forcing them into refugee camps in their own country. Opium growers get rich by plunging fellow citizens into the depths of misery.
RT Doc’s investigative team visited Afghanistan to document the Police’s losing battle against opium producers and its effect on the rest of the country. They talk to police officers, drug users and opium growers in search of a fuller picture and to ask why this massive and life-destroying industry continues to flourish.
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Afghan Overdose. Inside Afghanistan's Opium Trade (Trailer)

Afghanistan is the world’s biggest exporter of black-market opium from which heroin is made. It’s a multi-billion dollar business, responsible for more than a h...

Afghanistan is the world’s biggest exporter of black-market opium from which heroin is made. It’s a multi-billion dollar business, responsible for more than a hundred thousand deaths every year and it’s a major source of income for terrorists. RT Doc travelled to the poppy fields where death is harvested to find out why no one can put a stop to this deadly trade.
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Afghanistan is the world’s biggest exporter of black-market opium from which heroin is made. It’s a multi-billion dollar business, responsible for more than a hundred thousand deaths every year and it’s a major source of income for terrorists. RT Doc travelled to the poppy fields where death is harvested to find out why no one can put a stop to this deadly trade.
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Redeeming Afghan addicts

Destitute drug addicts live beneath a bridge in western Kabul. Social stigma against drug use is great. Disowned or otherwise disconnected from their families, ...

Destitute drug addicts live beneath a bridge in western Kabul. Social stigma against drug use is great. Disowned or otherwise disconnected from their families, they lose access to the primary network of help available to the poor in this developing country. They are, definitively, unredeemable, and yet one woman, Laila Haidari, seeks to redeem them.

Destitute drug addicts live beneath a bridge in western Kabul. Social stigma against drug use is great. Disowned or otherwise disconnected from their families, they lose access to the primary network of help available to the poor in this developing country. They are, definitively, unredeemable, and yet one woman, Laila Haidari, seeks to redeem them.

August 10, 2009
In a small village in northeastern Afghanistan,
it's estimated more than half the residents are addicted to opium, Even the youngest o...

August 10, 2009
In a small village in northeastern Afghanistan,
it's estimated more than half the residents are addicted to opium, Even the youngest of children are given the drug
In a village in northeastern Afghanistan, it's just past eight in the morning at Islam Begs house, and the family is already curled up around a burning opium pipe
They include his one-year-old grandson
No one looks twice as his aunt blows the opium at him
It's a common practice here, resulting in rampant child addiction. Residents argue there is no alternative because there is no medicine: there is one drug and that's opium´
Islam Beg at age 65 admits he's ashamed of what he's become.
Islam Beg, drug addict "I started taking a smoke until I got addicted to this (opium). I lost my property, I lost my strength, my bravery and now I am laying here with an empty stomach."
Beg's forefathers used to own much of the land in the village and he once had 1,200 sheep. But they were sold, and then the land sold, to pay for opium.
The pipe is passed around and they all take turns to fill their lungs with this deadly substance.
This family of five is typical of the growing number of narcotics addicts in Afghanistan. There are an estimated 150,000 opium addicts and a further 50,000 heroin addicts here
Decades of war and poverty have instilled a sense of hopelessness in many people here, making narcotics an easydestructive way to deal with an often grim reality
This village Sarab has a population of fewer than 2,000, and half are already addicts
Afghanistan has few drug treatment services availablecountry-wide, there are fewer than 200 beds total for drug rehabilitation
In small villages like this everyone is linked and every family sinks further and further into debt
Jan Begum, drug addict "All I had I lost buying this (opium) you can see nothing has been left for me. I have been sick for the last six months and I don't have money to go to the doctor, all I had I spent on this (opium)."
This woman blows smoke into the face of a little girl
Khanim Gul, drug addict "I blow opium smoke to her face because I want her to sleep well at night. Opium works for us as an alternative for any kind of medicine."
Beg is hopeful that his grandchildren will escape his fate, he believes they're not yet addicted
But opium addiction in these remote mountain hamlets is so entrenched that whole families, from the smallest toddlers to old men, are held in its vice

August 10, 2009
In a small village in northeastern Afghanistan,
it's estimated more than half the residents are addicted to opium, Even the youngest of children are given the drug
In a village in northeastern Afghanistan, it's just past eight in the morning at Islam Begs house, and the family is already curled up around a burning opium pipe
They include his one-year-old grandson
No one looks twice as his aunt blows the opium at him
It's a common practice here, resulting in rampant child addiction. Residents argue there is no alternative because there is no medicine: there is one drug and that's opium´
Islam Beg at age 65 admits he's ashamed of what he's become.
Islam Beg, drug addict "I started taking a smoke until I got addicted to this (opium). I lost my property, I lost my strength, my bravery and now I am laying here with an empty stomach."
Beg's forefathers used to own much of the land in the village and he once had 1,200 sheep. But they were sold, and then the land sold, to pay for opium.
The pipe is passed around and they all take turns to fill their lungs with this deadly substance.
This family of five is typical of the growing number of narcotics addicts in Afghanistan. There are an estimated 150,000 opium addicts and a further 50,000 heroin addicts here
Decades of war and poverty have instilled a sense of hopelessness in many people here, making narcotics an easydestructive way to deal with an often grim reality
This village Sarab has a population of fewer than 2,000, and half are already addicts
Afghanistan has few drug treatment services availablecountry-wide, there are fewer than 200 beds total for drug rehabilitation
In small villages like this everyone is linked and every family sinks further and further into debt
Jan Begum, drug addict "All I had I lost buying this (opium) you can see nothing has been left for me. I have been sick for the last six months and I don't have money to go to the doctor, all I had I spent on this (opium)."
This woman blows smoke into the face of a little girl
Khanim Gul, drug addict "I blow opium smoke to her face because I want her to sleep well at night. Opium works for us as an alternative for any kind of medicine."
Beg is hopeful that his grandchildren will escape his fate, he believes they're not yet addicted
But opium addiction in these remote mountain hamlets is so entrenched that whole families, from the smallest toddlers to old men, are held in its vice

published:04 Sep 2009

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Afghanistan is the world’s largest producer of opium – and the government is unable to change that

Afghanistan's opium production has only increased since NATO left the country, harvest is at a record high. The country is the world's largest producer of opium...

Afghanistan's opium production has only increased since NATO left the country, harvest is at a record high. The country is the world's largest producer of opium and heroin - around 85 percent of global supplies.
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Afghanistan's opium production has only increased since NATO left the country, harvest is at a record high. The country is the world's largest producer of opium and heroin - around 85 percent of global supplies.
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What Makes Heroin So Deadly? http://testu.be/1P3p7ZB
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Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan produce more than 90% of the world's opium. As a result, drug addiction has soared in Pakistan. So, how bad is Pakistan's heroin problem?
Learn More:
Drug Use in Pakistan 2013
http://www.unodc.org/documents/pakistan/Survey_Report_Final_2013.pdf
"In 2012, a comprehensive national study of drug use was conducted in Pakistan, providing reliable baseline information on the prevalence and patterns of drug use among the population aged 15 to 64."
How Pakistan succumbed to a hard-drug epidemic
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/10705585/How-Pakistan-succumbed-to-a-hard-drug-epidemic.html
"Almost30 years after first reporting on Pakistan's then nascent North West Frontier heroin trade, David Browne returns to find a city - and a country - in the grip of mass drug addiction."
Drug AbuseControlMaster Plan
http://www.aidsdatahub.org/sites/default/files/documents/Drug_Abuse_Control_Master_Plan_2010_14.pdf
"Pakistan is one of the transit countries for opiates produced in Afghanistan."
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Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan produce more than 90% of the world's opium. As a result, drug addiction has soared in Pakistan. So, how bad is Pakistan's heroin problem?
Learn More:
Drug Use in Pakistan 2013
http://www.unodc.org/documents/pakistan/Survey_Report_Final_2013.pdf
"In 2012, a comprehensive national study of drug use was conducted in Pakistan, providing reliable baseline information on the prevalence and patterns of drug use among the population aged 15 to 64."
How Pakistan succumbed to a hard-drug epidemic
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/10705585/How-Pakistan-succumbed-to-a-hard-drug-epidemic.html
"Almost30 years after first reporting on Pakistan's then nascent North West Frontier heroin trade, David Browne returns to find a city - and a country - in the grip of mass drug addiction."
Drug AbuseControlMaster Plan
http://www.aidsdatahub.org/sites/default/files/documents/Drug_Abuse_Control_Master_Plan_2010_14.pdf
"Pakistan is one of the transit countries for opiates produced in Afghanistan."
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America's Blind Eye (2002): This archive report exposes Afghan drug lord Haji Bashir Noorzai, head honcho of Afghanistan's heroin trade.
For similar stories see our Drug Wars playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlGSlkijht5gE0xdjKlubaVbDDmPVCgJL
BehindThe TalibanMask: The Other Side Of Afghanistan's Front-line
https://youtu.be/5OI8Y0jjM0k
InsideMyanmar's SoaringHeroinTrade
https://youtu.be/_5zC1WitvLw
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Following the arrest of Afghan heroin baron, Haji Bashir Noorzai, we bring back the award-winning report which first exposed him. It contains excellent undercover footage of the Kandahar opium markets.
On the streets of Sangin, it is business as usual for the opium wholesalers and brokers. "We buy it from the farmers here and then we take it to the Iranian border," comments one local dealer. At $800 a kilo, opium is too lucrative to ignore and the traders are relieved the Americans show no intention of closing down their operations. "You take away opium and you suck the oxygen out of this economy," says Michael Ware of Time magazine.
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America's Blind Eye (2002): This archive report exposes Afghan drug lord Haji Bashir Noorzai, head honcho of Afghanistan's heroin trade.
For similar stories see our Drug Wars playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlGSlkijht5gE0xdjKlubaVbDDmPVCgJL
BehindThe TalibanMask: The Other Side Of Afghanistan's Front-line
https://youtu.be/5OI8Y0jjM0k
InsideMyanmar's SoaringHeroinTrade
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Following the arrest of Afghan heroin baron, Haji Bashir Noorzai, we bring back the award-winning report which first exposed him. It contains excellent undercover footage of the Kandahar opium markets.
On the streets of Sangin, it is business as usual for the opium wholesalers and brokers. "We buy it from the farmers here and then we take it to the Iranian border," comments one local dealer. At $800 a kilo, opium is too lucrative to ignore and the traders are relieved the Americans show no intention of closing down their operations. "You take away opium and you suck the oxygen out of this economy," says Michael Ware of Time magazine.
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Express Punjab - version English

EXPRESS | PUNJAB
￼￼￼￼ExpressPunjab is a documentary, which looks at the region of Punjab, firmly in a grip of a drug epidemic with a staggering 70% of its you...

EXPRESS | PUNJAB
￼￼￼￼ExpressPunjab is a documentary, which looks at the region of Punjab, firmly in a grip of a drug epidemic with a staggering 70% of its youth, estimated to be on drugs. India and Pakistan maybe at war but there is a commercial relationship that binds them with a drug route starting from Afghanistan to Pakistan and then Punjab ending up in the big cities of India. And with every 3rd family in Punjab having relatives in the UK/Europe or USA sending money home to their families they are unwittingly sending money for drugs and not food.
￼The truth is that Punjab is in a grip of a drug epidemic – and a main university in route on the borders discovering where the region has claimed that a staggering 70% are estimated to be on drugs such as
they come from, who are the suppliers heroin, smack and pharmaceutical medical drugs. It is a problem that is and who are the addicts. The threatening the future of the next generation
From the ages of 17 – 87 the Punjabi men are destroying their lives and their families as this problem continues to be brushed under the carpet by a state that is in total denial.
Express | Punjab takes a hard-hitting look at this phenomenon asking difficult questions such as why is this happening? How is it happening? What are the legal authorities doing to stem the tide of this ever-increasing crime? And to what extent is the police turning a blind eye and in some cases even colluding with the drug dealers?
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￼A Man who lost his Son - The documentary looks at the real human suffering that drug users cause and how their actions destroyed their families and relationships. Take for instance 87-year- old Paramjeet Singh (left) whose 25-year- old son Bala took an overdose and left his family in financial dire straits, as he was the only real breadwinner. His father reveals that he never got his son married because of his drug habits and he did not wish to see his daughter-in law become a widow at such an early age.
Amarjeet Kaur (A Widow) - 45-year-old Amarjeet Kaur tells us how her husband a farmer a habitual smack user died after an overdose leaving her and the two young children penniless. They are now left to fend for themselves.
￼Former drug addict and now editor-at-large of Tehelka (Sting) magazine VijaySimha puts into historical context the origin of the problem explaining how Punjab became a haven for drug peddlers from Afghanistan in the late 80’s catering for the
￼Vijay Simha (Editor-at-large, Tehelka Magazine)
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‘Brown sugar addict’. He blames the then Indian government who were totally unable to get to grips with the problem and let it spiral madly out of control. He further added ‘It’s like a locust attacking a field there’ nothing left. It’s totally hollow and that is totally what is happening in Punjab and it’s not something that anyone will accept”
￼Iqbal Singh, a respected current SeniorSuperintendent of police makes the startling revelation that “10% of the Police force is drug addicts themselves... They are mixed up with the drug peddlers” he says and the rest are corrupt taking money from the traffickers”. With that kind of corruption and collusion the police do not have a chance to even skim the surface of the problem.
But the most startling piece of footage is of two 17 and 18 year old (names unknown) ‘shooting up’ with pharmaceutical drugs purchased from the local chemist for a Rs. 100/- ( £1.20) . With alarming honesty and no less bravado these two young users show us
￼￼Left: AftershockRight: 17 and 18 year old shooting up how they ‘shoot up’ drugs to get high up to 4 times a day and that it is the local pharmacist who has supplied them with the package which include anaesthetics and painkillers and a new needle. This cheap fix combination satisfies their habits and we see first hand how they do it and we witnessed first hand their feeling of getting high.
They pour scorn on the ‘respectable pharmacist’ who without batting an eyelid sells them drugs and how the local police not only turn a blind eye but actively cut themselves a piece of the action from the sale of these drugs. Almost all their schoolmates are also addicts they tell us and the reality is that unless they stop this horrendous drug abuse they will die.
But the problem of drug addiction is not confined to the young. Take for instance Grandfather and a agricultural worker 70 year old Singh who spends up to a 3rd of his daily wage in buying bukhi (A poppy husk) which he claims, it give him energy and puts him on a perpetual high. He simply cannot work without taking his daily intake of four doses a day.
“In 10 years time the butter chicken will still be there so will the bhangra but the young people of Punjab wont be” Vijay Simha
Produced by: Ranbir Kaloya
Directed by: Gaurav Bavdankar
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EXPRESS | PUNJAB
￼￼￼￼ExpressPunjab is a documentary, which looks at the region of Punjab, firmly in a grip of a drug epidemic with a staggering 70% of its youth, estimated to be on drugs. India and Pakistan maybe at war but there is a commercial relationship that binds them with a drug route starting from Afghanistan to Pakistan and then Punjab ending up in the big cities of India. And with every 3rd family in Punjab having relatives in the UK/Europe or USA sending money home to their families they are unwittingly sending money for drugs and not food.
￼The truth is that Punjab is in a grip of a drug epidemic – and a main university in route on the borders discovering where the region has claimed that a staggering 70% are estimated to be on drugs such as
they come from, who are the suppliers heroin, smack and pharmaceutical medical drugs. It is a problem that is and who are the addicts. The threatening the future of the next generation
From the ages of 17 – 87 the Punjabi men are destroying their lives and their families as this problem continues to be brushed under the carpet by a state that is in total denial.
Express | Punjab takes a hard-hitting look at this phenomenon asking difficult questions such as why is this happening? How is it happening? What are the legal authorities doing to stem the tide of this ever-increasing crime? And to what extent is the police turning a blind eye and in some cases even colluding with the drug dealers?
￼
￼A Man who lost his Son - The documentary looks at the real human suffering that drug users cause and how their actions destroyed their families and relationships. Take for instance 87-year- old Paramjeet Singh (left) whose 25-year- old son Bala took an overdose and left his family in financial dire straits, as he was the only real breadwinner. His father reveals that he never got his son married because of his drug habits and he did not wish to see his daughter-in law become a widow at such an early age.
Amarjeet Kaur (A Widow) - 45-year-old Amarjeet Kaur tells us how her husband a farmer a habitual smack user died after an overdose leaving her and the two young children penniless. They are now left to fend for themselves.
￼Former drug addict and now editor-at-large of Tehelka (Sting) magazine VijaySimha puts into historical context the origin of the problem explaining how Punjab became a haven for drug peddlers from Afghanistan in the late 80’s catering for the
￼Vijay Simha (Editor-at-large, Tehelka Magazine)
“
‘Brown sugar addict’. He blames the then Indian government who were totally unable to get to grips with the problem and let it spiral madly out of control. He further added ‘It’s like a locust attacking a field there’ nothing left. It’s totally hollow and that is totally what is happening in Punjab and it’s not something that anyone will accept”
￼Iqbal Singh, a respected current SeniorSuperintendent of police makes the startling revelation that “10% of the Police force is drug addicts themselves... They are mixed up with the drug peddlers” he says and the rest are corrupt taking money from the traffickers”. With that kind of corruption and collusion the police do not have a chance to even skim the surface of the problem.
But the most startling piece of footage is of two 17 and 18 year old (names unknown) ‘shooting up’ with pharmaceutical drugs purchased from the local chemist for a Rs. 100/- ( £1.20) . With alarming honesty and no less bravado these two young users show us
￼￼Left: AftershockRight: 17 and 18 year old shooting up how they ‘shoot up’ drugs to get high up to 4 times a day and that it is the local pharmacist who has supplied them with the package which include anaesthetics and painkillers and a new needle. This cheap fix combination satisfies their habits and we see first hand how they do it and we witnessed first hand their feeling of getting high.
They pour scorn on the ‘respectable pharmacist’ who without batting an eyelid sells them drugs and how the local police not only turn a blind eye but actively cut themselves a piece of the action from the sale of these drugs. Almost all their schoolmates are also addicts they tell us and the reality is that unless they stop this horrendous drug abuse they will die.
But the problem of drug addiction is not confined to the young. Take for instance Grandfather and a agricultural worker 70 year old Singh who spends up to a 3rd of his daily wage in buying bukhi (A poppy husk) which he claims, it give him energy and puts him on a perpetual high. He simply cannot work without taking his daily intake of four doses a day.
“In 10 years time the butter chicken will still be there so will the bhangra but the young people of Punjab wont be” Vijay Simha
Produced by: Ranbir Kaloya
Directed by: Gaurav Bavdankar
￼￼

Afghan Overdose. Inside opium trade

Afghanistan is the world’s biggest exporter of black-market opium from which heroin is made. It’s a multi-billion dollar business, responsible for around a hundred thousand deaths every year and it’s a major source of income for terrorists. RT Doc travelled to the poppy fields where death is harvested to find out why no one can put a stop to this deadly trade.
When it comes to heroin, a non-intervention policy is still going strong in Afghanistan where over 90% of the world’s black market opium is produced. Most finds its way onto the international drug market and the profits fund organized crime and terrorist groups like ISIS, which is growing in strength here.
The dealers and manufacturers aren’t hard to find: they live in luxurious houses, have fields blooming with poppies and sell their narcotic wares in broad daylight. Even so, they still manage to evade arrest. Poppy fields are destroyed and drugs seized but it’s only ever the middle men who are punished, not the drug lords. There’s been a NATO military presence in the country for 14 years now but still, drugs production continues to grow.
Local people suffer from the drug business too, around 18% of the capital’s population are drug addicts. The places where drugs are sold and used are well known but the police are powerless to act. Mafia wars drive civilians from their land in the southern regions, forcing them into refugee camps in their own country. Opium growers get rich by plunging fellow citizens into the depths of misery.
RT Doc’s investigative team visited Afghanistan to document the Police’s losing battle against opium producers and its effect on the rest of the country. They talk to police officers, drug users and opium growers in search of a fuller picture and to ask why this massive and life-destroying industry continues to flourish.
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Afghanistan's Secret Heroin Epidemic (Drugs Documentary)

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Afghan Overdose. Inside Afghanistan's Opium Trade (Trailer)

Afghanistan is the world’s biggest exporter of black-market opium from which heroin is made. It’s a multi-billion dollar business, responsible for more than a hundred thousand deaths every year and it’s a major source of income for terrorists. RT Doc travelled to the poppy fields where death is harvested to find out why no one can put a stop to this deadly trade.
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Redeeming Afghan addicts

Destitute drug addicts live beneath a bridge in western Kabul. Social stigma against drug ...

Redeeming Afghan addicts

Destitute drug addicts live beneath a bridge in western Kabul. Social stigma against drug use is great. Disowned or otherwise disconnected from their families, they lose access to the primary network of help available to the poor in this developing country. They are, definitively, unredeemable, and yet one woman, Laila Haidari, seeks to redeem them.

August 10, 2009
In a small village in northeastern Afghanistan,
it's estimated more than half the residents are addicted to opium, Even the youngest of children are given the drug
In a village in northeastern Afghanistan, it's just past eight in the morning at Islam Begs house, and the family is already curled up around a burning opium pipe
They include his one-year-old grandson
No one looks twice as his aunt blows the opium at him
It's a common practice here, resulting in rampant child addiction. Residents argue there is no alternative because there is no medicine: there is one drug and that's opium´
Islam Beg at age 65 admits he's ashamed of what he's become.
Islam Beg, drug addict "I started taking a smoke until I got addicted to this (opium). I lost my property, I lost my strength, my bravery and now I am laying here with an empty stomach."
Beg's forefathers used to own much of the land in the village and he once had 1,200 sheep. But they were sold, and then the land sold, to pay for opium.
The pipe is passed around and they all take turns to fill their lungs with this deadly substance.
This family of five is typical of the growing number of narcotics addicts in Afghanistan. There are an estimated 150,000 opium addicts and a further 50,000 heroin addicts here
Decades of war and poverty have instilled a sense of hopelessness in many people here, making narcotics an easydestructive way to deal with an often grim reality
This village Sarab has a population of fewer than 2,000, and half are already addicts
Afghanistan has few drug treatment services availablecountry-wide, there are fewer than 200 beds total for drug rehabilitation
In small villages like this everyone is linked and every family sinks further and further into debt
Jan Begum, drug addict "All I had I lost buying this (opium) you can see nothing has been left for me. I have been sick for the last six months and I don't have money to go to the doctor, all I had I spent on this (opium)."
This woman blows smoke into the face of a little girl
Khanim Gul, drug addict "I blow opium smoke to her face because I want her to sleep well at night. Opium works for us as an alternative for any kind of medicine."
Beg is hopeful that his grandchildren will escape his fate, he believes they're not yet addicted
But opium addiction in these remote mountain hamlets is so entrenched that whole families, from the smallest toddlers to old men, are held in its vice

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Afghanistan is the world’s largest producer of opium – and the government is unable to change that

Afghanistan's opium production has only increased since NATO left the country, harvest is ...

Afghanistan is the world’s largest producer of opium – and the government is unable to change that

Afghanistan's opium production has only increased since NATO left the country, harvest is at a record high. The country is the world's largest producer of opium and heroin - around 85 percent of global supplies.
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Why Pakistan Is The Most Heroin Addicted Country

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Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan produce more than 90% of the world's opium. As a result, drug addiction has soared in Pakistan. So, how bad is Pakistan's heroin problem?
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Afghanistan's Deposed Heroin Kingpin

America's Blind Eye (2002): This archive report exposes Afghan drug lord Haji Bashir Noorzai, head honcho of Afghanistan's heroin trade.
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Following the arrest of Afghan heroin baron, Haji Bashir Noorzai, we bring back the award-winning report which first exposed him. It contains excellent undercover footage of the Kandahar opium markets.
On the streets of Sangin, it is business as usual for the opium wholesalers and brokers. "We buy it from the farmers here and then we take it to the Iranian border," comments one local dealer. At $800 a kilo, opium is too lucrative to ignore and the traders are relieved the Americans show no intention of closing down their operations. "You take away opium and you suck the oxygen out of this economy," says Michael Ware of Time magazine.
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Express Punjab - version English

EXPRESS | PUNJAB
￼￼￼￼Express Punjab is a documentary, which looks at the region of Punjab...

Express Punjab - version English

EXPRESS | PUNJAB
￼￼￼￼ExpressPunjab is a documentary, which looks at the region of Punjab, firmly in a grip of a drug epidemic with a staggering 70% of its youth, estimated to be on drugs. India and Pakistan maybe at war but there is a commercial relationship that binds them with a drug route starting from Afghanistan to Pakistan and then Punjab ending up in the big cities of India. And with every 3rd family in Punjab having relatives in the UK/Europe or USA sending money home to their families they are unwittingly sending money for drugs and not food.
￼The truth is that Punjab is in a grip of a drug epidemic – and a main university in route on the borders discovering where the region has claimed that a staggering 70% are estimated to be on drugs such as
they come from, who are the suppliers heroin, smack and pharmaceutical medical drugs. It is a problem that is and who are the addicts. The threatening the future of the next generation
From the ages of 17 – 87 the Punjabi men are destroying their lives and their families as this problem continues to be brushed under the carpet by a state that is in total denial.
Express | Punjab takes a hard-hitting look at this phenomenon asking difficult questions such as why is this happening? How is it happening? What are the legal authorities doing to stem the tide of this ever-increasing crime? And to what extent is the police turning a blind eye and in some cases even colluding with the drug dealers?
￼
￼A Man who lost his Son - The documentary looks at the real human suffering that drug users cause and how their actions destroyed their families and relationships. Take for instance 87-year- old Paramjeet Singh (left) whose 25-year- old son Bala took an overdose and left his family in financial dire straits, as he was the only real breadwinner. His father reveals that he never got his son married because of his drug habits and he did not wish to see his daughter-in law become a widow at such an early age.
Amarjeet Kaur (A Widow) - 45-year-old Amarjeet Kaur tells us how her husband a farmer a habitual smack user died after an overdose leaving her and the two young children penniless. They are now left to fend for themselves.
￼Former drug addict and now editor-at-large of Tehelka (Sting) magazine VijaySimha puts into historical context the origin of the problem explaining how Punjab became a haven for drug peddlers from Afghanistan in the late 80’s catering for the
￼Vijay Simha (Editor-at-large, Tehelka Magazine)
“
‘Brown sugar addict’. He blames the then Indian government who were totally unable to get to grips with the problem and let it spiral madly out of control. He further added ‘It’s like a locust attacking a field there’ nothing left. It’s totally hollow and that is totally what is happening in Punjab and it’s not something that anyone will accept”
￼Iqbal Singh, a respected current SeniorSuperintendent of police makes the startling revelation that “10% of the Police force is drug addicts themselves... They are mixed up with the drug peddlers” he says and the rest are corrupt taking money from the traffickers”. With that kind of corruption and collusion the police do not have a chance to even skim the surface of the problem.
But the most startling piece of footage is of two 17 and 18 year old (names unknown) ‘shooting up’ with pharmaceutical drugs purchased from the local chemist for a Rs. 100/- ( £1.20) . With alarming honesty and no less bravado these two young users show us
￼￼Left: AftershockRight: 17 and 18 year old shooting up how they ‘shoot up’ drugs to get high up to 4 times a day and that it is the local pharmacist who has supplied them with the package which include anaesthetics and painkillers and a new needle. This cheap fix combination satisfies their habits and we see first hand how they do it and we witnessed first hand their feeling of getting high.
They pour scorn on the ‘respectable pharmacist’ who without batting an eyelid sells them drugs and how the local police not only turn a blind eye but actively cut themselves a piece of the action from the sale of these drugs. Almost all their schoolmates are also addicts they tell us and the reality is that unless they stop this horrendous drug abuse they will die.
But the problem of drug addiction is not confined to the young. Take for instance Grandfather and a agricultural worker 70 year old Singh who spends up to a 3rd of his daily wage in buying bukhi (A poppy husk) which he claims, it give him energy and puts him on a perpetual high. He simply cannot work without taking his daily intake of four doses a day.
“In 10 years time the butter chicken will still be there so will the bhangra but the young people of Punjab wont be” Vijay Simha
Produced by: Ranbir Kaloya
Directed by: Gaurav Bavdankar
￼￼

Afghan Overdose. Inside opium trade...

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How hash is made in Afghanistan! Black Afghan Hash...

Afghan Overdose. Inside Afghanistan's Opium Trade ...

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